The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) seeks applications to re-establish National Resource Centers for (1) Reaching Underserved Victims and (2) Victim Research and Evaluation.
Donor Name: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,500,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
With this solicitation, OVC seeks to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) that ensures that the victim services field benefits from victim-centered practices; translates knowledge to enhance the use of data and research to understand victim needs; identifies and implements proven and effective practices; and enhances victim service accessibility and delivery.
Category 1: Reaching Underserved Victims
This solicitation will fund one organization, or a partnership of organizations, to reestablish the National Resource Center for Reaching Victims (NRC). The goals of the new NRC are to help the field reach more victims by ensuring services are accessible, improving the field’s ability to identify who is underserved or unserved, and developing victim-centered practices that improve outcomes for victims. To avoid overlap and duplication with other OVC-funded efforts, the new NRC will narrow its focus to children, boys and men of color, and former justice-involved individuals.
Objectives
- Offer TTA to assist the victim services field in serving children, boys and men of color, and former justice-involved victims and address the unique challenges these victims and their families face when seeking services due to unaddressed trauma caused by poly-victimization, racism, and other impacts.
- Identify and promote promising practices to ensure these victims and their families are identified and connected to supportive services that aid their healing when they are impacted by community and gun violence.
- Identify current challenges faced by these victims and the organizations supporting them, including the identification of knowledge gaps in the field around supporting these victims, and promising practices to overcome or mediate the challenges identified.
- Coordinate with OVC’s National Center for Culturally Responsive Victim Services and other OVC-funded TTA providers to use the supports available and avoid duplication.
Category 2: Victim Research and Evaluation
This solicitation will fund an organization, or a partnership of organizations, to operate the Center for Victim Research (CVR). The goal of the new CVR is to increase the evidence base of the victim service field by promoting the use of data and findings from relevant research and evaluation to improve victim services. All activities in this area aim to improve the field’s ability to identify what is working; identify and fill gaps in knowledge and in services; and ensure the latest evidence is used to improve victim services.
Objectives
- Work with OVC’s State Victim Resource Division (SVRD), and the peer-to-peer training and technical assistance provider for state and territory administrators, to facilitate partnerships between state and territory VOCA state administering agencies and Statistical Analysis Centers, along with other key stakeholders, to expand and improve state-level data collection, better use victim survey and OVC performance measurement data, and identify priority needs. Collectively, these TTA efforts will guide and improve state and territory VOCA administering agency efforts to address community and gun violence and enhance services for underserved victims.
- Broaden recruiting efforts to increase the number and diversity of researchers involved in victim research and evaluation and highlight community-led participatory research when fostering research-practitioner partnerships through discussion forums and participation in a research-to-practice (R2P) network of victim-focused resource centers that share lessons learned and strategies for promoting victim research, practice, and policy integration.
- Improve the field’s ability to identify what works, service gaps, and ensure the latest and most relevant evidence is made available to improve services for underserved victim populations and other priority areas identified by OVC.
- Coordinate with other OVC-funded TTA providers to use the supports available and avoid duplication.
Funding Information
Category 1: Reaching Underserved Victims
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,500,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 24
Category 2: Victim Research and Evaluation
- Dollar Amount for Award: $1,500,000
- Performance Duration (Months): 24
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
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